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These essays demonstrate that American political culture was fashioned in a dialogue between Federalists and Jeffersonians. They portray an active Federalist coalition that offered a vibrant intellectual and political alternative throughout the era of the early republic. Cutting across boundaries of region, culture, race, gender, and class, Federalists struggled with the problems of nation building, national identity, and economic development.

In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S....

The book deals with the stories of a few dozen Jews, Zionists, politicians, writers, poets, and public activists who passed away in the Diaspora, far and detached from the national homeland that they fought for before their death. Only later, in an act of repair, their remains were sent to be buried in the sacred Zionist soil. Their graves became pilgrimage sites and contributed to the design of Israel s symbolic landscape.

The ten studies in this book explore the phenomenon of public memory in societies of the Graeco-Roman period. Mendels begins with a concise discussion of the historical canon that emerged in Late Antiquity and brought with it the (distorted) memory of ancient history in Western culture. The following nine chapters each focus on a different source of collective memory in order to demonstrate the patchy and incomplete associations ancient societies had with their past, including discussions of Plato's Politeia, a "site of memory" of the early church, and the dichotomy existing between the...

In his new book Doron Mendels addresses the topic of the authority of texts and their transmission, as well as different strategies of narration in ancient texts. Mendels provides extensive treatment of issues such as linearity, emporality and simultaenity of texts, whilst working to examine four core themes. First, the narrator and his strategies in the historiography of the Hellenistic period. Secondly, Jewish Historical thought in the Hellenistic period and beyond. Thirdly, issues of Hellenization in Palestine - power, honour, gifting, etiquette and sovereignty and their presentation in...

»Vielleicht sind wir schon morgen nicht mehr da.«

Lizzie Doron hat ihr Leben lang gekämpft - für eine Heimat ohne Verfolgung, für Frieden mit den palästinensischen Nachbarn, für Freiheit und Demokratie. Dann kam der 7. Oktober. Während in Tel Aviv Sirenen heulten, führte die israelische Regierung einen Krieg, der noch mehr Menschen tötete und keine zurückbrachte.

Inzwischen sind über anderthalb Jahre vergangen. Auf das Grauen der Kriegsmonate folgte ein brüchiger Waffenstillstand. Gibt es eine Zukunft, an die man heute noch glauben kann? In einer...

Spätestens seit Hannah Arendts Eichmann-Buch und ihrer Kritik an der Rolle der Judenräte in der Zeit der Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden wird die Frage der Zusammenarbeit von jüdischen Repräsentanten mit dem NS-Regime äußerst kontrovers diskutiert. Wie konnten Menschen gezwungen werden, an ihrer eigenen Vernichtung mitzuwirken?
Wer verstehen will, wie die Judenräte entstanden, muß sich mit den Wiener Verhältnissen auseinandersetzen. In Wien entwickelte und erprobte Eichmann ab 1938 sein »Modell« nationalsozialistischer Judenpolitik. Hier wurde die...